Josh Mckenzie
Software Engineering Architect at The Apache Software Foundation
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Mckenzie is a seasoned software engineer and open-source leader with 12 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems and a long-standing commitment to Apache Cassandra as a committer and PMC member. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, he balances roles in industry and community—currently at Apple while serving as a Member of The Apache Software Foundation and an active Cassandra PMC contributor since 2017. His career spans hands-on engineering, SRE and trading systems at Sun Trading, and senior leadership at DataStax where he progressed from senior engineer to VP of Engineering and shaped open-source strategy. Josh blends deep distributed-database expertise with pragmatic operational experience, having led Windows support for Cassandra and chaired the PMC as Vice President. Known for translating complex infrastructure needs into maintainable systems, he brings both project stewardship and practical coding chops to large-scale data platforms. Beyond titles, he’s one of the few practitioners who pairs enterprise engineering leadership with continual, high-impact contributions to a major OSS database.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Management with focus in IT, Bachelor's Management with focus in IT at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (55)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jmckenzie-dev/cassandra-dtest-DEPRECATED
Apr 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:49 pushes, 32 branches in 10 years 10 months
cassandradistributed-testskafkajavadistributed
jmckenzie-dev/cassandra
Jan 2015 - May 2026
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:2 PRs, 441 pushes, 206 branches in 11 years 6 months
cassandraapachedatabaseapache-cassandrajava
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